Interference or not

[Carl Childress]

Here's a play that happened in my association. I was asked to provide a ruling "after the fact."

NFHS rules.

R2. The ball gets away from the catcher and trickles toward the opponents' dugout. F2 slides and comes to a stop at the lip of the dugout. As he gloves the ball, an opponent trying to get out of the way slips and falls onto the catcher. R2 pulls into third safely.

The umpire is certain that the catcher could have thrown to third for a play on R2, but he is also certain R2 would have been safe.

???

[Edited by Carl Childress on Apr 9th, 2005 at 01:34 PM]